Besides, I had political problems with some of the pibrochs, the ancient laments for the deaths and defeats of history. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
I had learned to play laments - the pibrochs - as a boy, chiefly for the unromantic reason that their slowness meant I had more time to get the notes right. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
The mountain minstrelsy, which sounded the appropriate pibrochs or battle tunes of the rival confederacies, was silent when they entered on the Inch, for such was the order which had been given. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These warlike minstrels, who had the highest opinion, each, of the superiority of his own tribe, joined to the most overweening idea of the importance connected with his profession, at first, performed their various pibrochs in front each of his own clan. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It would have been hidden away after Culloden, along with the pistols and the swords, with the pipes and their pibrochs-all the symbols of pride conquered. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
The most striking examples of Scotch music are the pibrochs and strathspeys. ❋ Various (N/A)
Even when the most distinctive Scotch pibrochs were played I was quite conscious of an Eastern clash in them which no Scot could or would have given. ❋ Various (N/A)
Whom pibrochs pierce not, crystals cannot cloy; -- ❋ Various (1902)
Will the day never come when, with whirling sporrans and flashing pibrochs you will rise against the alien oppressor, and demand Home Rule, together with the total abolition of present disdainful British _insouciance_? ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
Scott's contributions to this anthology that they are not the utterance of the poet's personal emotion; they are coronachs, pibrochs, gathering songs, narrative ballads, and the like -- objective, dramatic lyrics touched always with the light of history or legend. ❋ Unknown (1886)
These warlike minstrels, who had the highest opinion each of the superiority of his own tribe, joined to the most overweening idea of the importance connected with his profession, at first performed their various pibrochs in front each of his own clan. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Before the sun had risen in full splendour I heard martial music approaching, and soon beheld from my windows the 5th reserve of the British army passing; the Highland brigade were the first in advance, led by their noble thanes, the bagpipes playing their several pibrochs; they were succeeded by the 28th, their bugles 'note falling more blithely upon the ear. ❋ Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet De (1836)
They fought against fortune with hearts unsubdued. 'do not come at such a moment, when my head is full of plaids, pibrochs, and claymores, and ask my reason to admit what, I am afraid, it cannot deny -- I mean, that the public advantage peremptorily demanded that these things should cease to exist. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Do not come at such a moment, when my head is full of plaids, pibrochs, and claymores, and ask my reason to admit what, I am afraid, it cannot deny -- I mean, that the public advantage peremptorily demanded that these things should cease to exist. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
London Scottish brought along their own piper to stir the Exiles into giving their all, but he was reduced to skirling wailing pibrochs as Tynedale did a Butcher Cumberland on the Cockney Jocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
